IRQ and sleep_on

[christophe barbe]

I've missed the thread "avoiding bad sleeps" last week. I've had a similar problem and I would like to discuss the solution I've used to avoid it.

I want to wake up a sleeping process from an IRQ handler. In the process, if I use a interruptible_sleep_on(), I need first to restore flags (otherwise the process will sleep forever). 

restore_flags(flags);
// <<== here IRQ handler possibly call wake_up()
interruptible_sleep_on(&my_queue);

If I first enable interrupts and then call sleep_on, sometimes (often) the wake_up is called (due to a pending interrupt) when the wait_queue is empty.
I've written a modified version of  interruptible_sleep_on which takes an additionnal argument : flags to be restored.

my_interruptible_sleep_on(&my_queue, flags);

It seems to be ok. I've no more bad sleeps or more exactly rarely and that why I submit this to you. Is my way to do it correct ?
I've joined at the end of this mail the modified function.

Thanks,
Christophe Barbé

long my_interruptible_sleep_on_timeout(struct wait_queue **p, long timeout, unsigned long oflags)
{
	unsigned long flags;
	struct wait_queue wait;

	current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;

// SLEEP_ON_HEAD
	wait.task = current;
	write_lock_irq(&waitqueue_lock);
	__add_wait_queue(p, &wait);
	write_unlock(&waitqueue_lock);

	restore_flags(oflags);
	timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);

// SLEEP_ON_TAIL
	write_lock_irqsave(&waitqueue_lock,flags);
	__remove_wait_queue(p, &wait);
	write_unlock_irqrestore(&waitqueue_lock,flags);

	return timeout;
}

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Christophe Barbé
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